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Over £2 million of investment establishes Aurora’s IoT Centre as our new global technology hub, and focuses solely on the development of connected IoT lighting solutions, tailored to every client’s requirements. For each and every product, we offer customer support and aftercare ensuring a dedicated end-to-end project solution. Our IoT hub in Swindon, UK is at the heart of Aurora’s future. It’s where over 30 years of manufacturing & lighting design meets the Internet of Things, and where lighting and technology merge to create exceptional value for our customers.

Back of House

Front of House

Enterprise

Office

BACK OF HOUSE

Management Portal

real-time data for predictive maintenance

Another benefit of Aurora’s enterprise smart lighting is predictive maintenance. Facilities management can observe performance, eliminate manual checks, plan replacements, save manpower and maintenance costs, review energy and cost savings, all from a single dashboard. Custom warranties can be designed to the needs of each customer based on their actual usage versus a calculated average.

FRONT OF HOUSE

Human Engagement

activity tracking via gooee enabled luminaires

Real-time motion detection appears on the management dashboard as shoppers browse. Activity monitoring is captured via discrete, integrated sensing technologies built into the luminaires. Eliminating the need to purchase, maintain and manage data from a separate system.

ENTERPRISE

Real-Time & Historical Multi-Site data

actionable insights from machine learning

A real-estate’s footprint, energy consumption, staff management, lighting maintenance and consumer engagement becomes easily manageable through a single platform. Compare, collate and display data in a tailored dashboard that is easy to manage, read and use for performance benchmarking.

OFFICE

Occupancy Detection via Gooee Enabled Luminaires

secure and safe environment

As employees enter or move around the office, their motion is detected via sensing technology and beacons integrated into the luminaires whilst the resultant data can be displayed anywhere, in real-time. Personal Access Control could be integrated with handheld devices or tags, managing staff and visitor access into offices and other secure locations.

The LED lamps, supplied by Aurora, are the latest addition to the ever-expanding Hive ecosystem. British Gas – the largest power utility in Britain – launched Hive Active Heating in July 2015 to allow customers to control heating and hot water from computers and gadgets either at home or from around the world. Early this year it added 'smart plug' and 'smart sensor' products; the plug lets nervous users switch off an outlet if they fear they've left the iron on, and the sensors send alerts if they detect motion through a door or window.

Lighting – called Hive Active Light - now fits neatly into the same scheme. Traveling users can, for example, schedule lights to switch on and change brightness as a burglar deterrent. Or they can do the same for their own mood and comfort when they're at home.

New partnership

Through a partnership with LED company Aurora Group, British Gas in June began offering intelligent LED bulbs that tie into the Hive home internet hub, allowing users to wirelessly turn lights on and off and brighten and dim them from anywhere via an app. Last week, it beefed up the offering with bulbs that will change colours and colour temperature

Neil Salt, managing director of Aurora's IoT division, said 'We've always been excited about what the opportunities would be beyond the bulb and the opportunity came along with Hive. They have real opportunity in terms of their scale and the reach into residential. You can't ignore they're a significant player in that space. With men on the ground it makes a significant difference in how the adoption curve will be because you have the face-to-face interaction with people.'.

An expanding ecosystem

The LED lamps, supplied by Aurora, are the latest addition to the ever-expanding Hive ecosystem. British Gas – the largest power utility in Britain – launched Hive Active Heating in July 2015 to allow customers to control heating and hot water from computers and gadgets either at home or from around the world. Early this year it added 'smart plug' and 'smart sensor' products; the plug lets nervous users switch off an outlet if they fear they've left the iron on, and the sensors send alerts if they detect motion through a door or window.

Lighting – called Hive Active Light - now fits neatly into the same scheme. Traveling users can, for example, schedule lights to switch on and change brightness as a burglar deterrent. Or they can do the same for their own mood and comfort when they're at home.

A new colour changing bulb

A new Hive bulb from Aurora now lets users change colours. Another lets customers tune the colour temperature of white light, in line with the emerging field of 'circadian lighting' in which blue-tinged white light can help stimulate people, and red-tinged white light can foster relaxation.

'Although we started out by launching our smart thermostat, we are more than a central heating business,' Hive product and commercial director Tom Guy told Lux. 'For some, the benefits of smart lighting will be about the peace of mind that, while you’re away on business or holiday, you’ve scheduled your lights to come on. For others, it will be about setting the perfect ambience to unwind after a stressful day. For these reasons, smart lighting has the ability to transform people’s experience of the space they live in.'

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